Re: [patch 1/1] consolidate TRUE and FALSE

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 12:58:13 EST


On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:41:12PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> I assume that when you are not used to see 'bool', 'true' and 'false'
> then they hurt the eye, but when used to it it looks natural.

Five words: kernel is written in C.

Not in Pascal. Not in C++. Not in Algol. "When used to (something
non-idiomatic in C) it becomes natural" is not a valid argument.
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